From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image mode Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:29:40 +0100 Message-ID: <45C7CBF4.4070404@gmail.com> References: <87k5yxeg19.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170721840 10476 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 00:30:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Chong Yidong To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 01:30:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HEEED-0007s3-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:30:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEEEC-0001r3-0K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEEE0-0001pY-3X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:30:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEEDy-0001nt-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEEDy-0001nq-JY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:30:18 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HEEDv-00084t-4f; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:30:15 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60575 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HEEDM-0006bz-7u; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:29:41 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000710-3, 2007-02-05), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HEEDM-0006bz-7u. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HEEDM-0006bz-7u cd330da238352e6a8fc49bbfdcf83dd1 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65981 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > That is an interesting point. Is it safe for firefox, and for eog or > qiv, to display a file without checking it? If so, why in practice is > it safe? > > The answer can't be "Because people check every JPG file before they > try to display it using eog or qiv or firefox." I don't -- I would > not know how. And I am sure most other users would not know how to > check. > > So what is it in practice that prevents this from being a common way > for viruses to be introduced? That the image libraries are updated. Firefox updates itself or tells the user push a button to update Firefox whenever the authors of Firefox finds and fixes a security bug.